Believe Quotes

You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.

~ Christopher Cross

After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.

~ Bob Casey

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

~ George Smathers

My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.

~ David Pogue

'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.

~ Tavi Gevinson

I don't usually like teen novels written in the present tense, particularly those told from a first-person viewpoint. Too many writers seem to believe that using either or both devices automatically imbues their stories with deep seriousness and a contemporary feel.

~ Tony Bradman

Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.

~ Robin Wasserman

I definitely try to be myself and not try to imitate other performers. That's why I got my music degree. I wanted to be prepared and not be a 'product.' I want people to know that I'm not only a singer but a musician as well. I studied guitar, piano, and composition. I believe that it's just about being myself on and off stage.

~ Luis Fonsi

The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.

~ Morrissey

If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.

~ Kate Bush

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.

~ Lil Wayne

I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.

~ Lil Wayne

Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.

~ Ruth Brown

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

~ James Taylor

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

~ Maynard James Keenan

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

~ Ezra Pound

When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers.

~ David Amram

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

~ Oscar Wilde

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.

~ Robert E. Lee

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

~ Confucius

By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.

~ Linus Pauling

At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.

~ Howard Schultz

What I believe about the young age of the earth comes out of taking the Bible as written. And I've said numerous times over the years that the age of the earth, for example, is not a salvation issue but an authority issue.

~ Ken Ham

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

~ T. S. Eliot

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

~ Morgan Freeman

I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.

~ Olga Kurylenko

We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.

~ Ja Rule

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Religion triggers a lot of emotions in me, most of which stem from being raised Jewish in a very Baptist community in the South. I didn't believe any of it from an early age - the clubby quality of whatever religion or church you belonged to, Judaism included. It just struck me as foolish.

~ David Cross

The gift my mother gave me was the gift of possibility. From an early age, she instilled in me a belief that I could do anything I wanted to do. It wasn't a matter of, 'Can I?' or 'Should I?' It was just, 'You can, you must, you will!' She wanted me to believe that anything was possible.

~ Maria Shriver

The age of the Earth is a hotly debated issue among evangelicals. Old Earthers believe, like most scientists, that the universe is billions of years old. Young Earthers measure the age of the universe in terms of thousands of years.

~ Norman Geisler

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

~ Nana Mouskouri

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

~ Billy Graham

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

~ Martin Yan

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

~ Debra Messing

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

~ Franz Schubert

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

~ Paul Ryan

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

~ Franz Kafka